A Glimpse into McKinsey Choas

I put myself down for bringing cookies for Courtney's Valentine's Day party tomorrow. A pretty easy venture. Right? I could have run to the store and bought some cookies, or made some brownies or even bought a roll of sugar cookies. But no, I was aiming for super mom status (AKA stupid mom) and made the sugar cookies from scratch, rolled them out, cut them into small hearts, made the frosting from scratch and frosted and decorated each individual one myself. Well, I failed miserably.


I was stressed this morning, as I slept in because I haven't been getting much sleep being sick and the kids being sick, so I started behind. I wanted to get certain things done and knew I needed to get my walk in, and make these cookies. Well the walk went out the window and I scurried around, everything taking 3x as long with the kids awake, but got to the point where we were ready to begin. I gave Courtney her own bowl and we were mixing and listening to music and having fun, until ..... Courtney stops and pees all over my "cloth" kitchen chair. Yep! In all my stressing I never took her potty. Delayed cookie making to clean up the mess. Back to the cookies.

Meanwhile, Ben came home (his day off today) and rescued me by taking Courtney for a few hours. It still took me the rest of the morning and into the afternoon to get these darn cookies done. The failure was: they don't taste good and I gave up partway thru. I still have half the dough in the fridge (will be consumed as needed to fulfil my cookie dough cravings eventually) and gave up partway thru the frosting. So I have about 20 small heart cookies with sprinkles to show for my all day event (mistake).



I was still working on the clean up after dinner.

We had our financial bublestudy tonight. Before going, my plan was to get myself ready after dinner clean up and then the girls, but all H*** broke loose moments before. We were to leave at 6:30. At 6:20 I'm changing Caylee into pajammas when i see Courtney squat in her bear and say "uh -oh". J leave baby and run to put her on the potty. I didn't make it, but asked her to stay there while i finished with the baby. I get to Caylee and she had peed all over herself and the changing table. Im cleaning her up and Courtney keeps getting off the potty and I keep having to out her back on, then Courtney poops on the potty. Mini celebration, Ben walks into chaos and I ask him yo finish dressing baby while I clean up Courtney and get her new pajamas. I change her and Ben is still fumbling with Caylee and change her and we are out the door about 5 min late. Whew!

We are starting to get to the meat of it all this financial stuff and boy is this going to be a challenge. But I'm up for it and excited for the changes it's going to bring for our family. Now to just do it!